Europe doesn’t only need to innovate. It needs to learn to keep what it creates
Mehran Gul, author of “The New Geography of Innovation” and a speaker at NAM2026, explains why Europe’s lag in AI and frontier technologies is also a story of companies, capital and talent lost. The first challenge is not to produce more, but to stop what is born in Europe from growing up elsewhere. [Editor’s note. […]
Politics has entered the internet without asking permission
Even the most distracted — or the most dreamy — now have to reckon with the evidence. And now even the pioneers acknowledge that we live in a different world, perhaps uglier than before; certainly grayer. The same dream, the same vital energy that gave rise to the network must now be directed elsewhere: toward […]
Those who build roads win, in the long run, over those who build walls
Paul Vixie — Internet Hall of Famer, “Godfather of DNS” — describes the fragmentation of the internet without nostalgia: control will grow, technology alone will not be enough, and the only realistic hope lies in the competition between those who connect and those who divide. [Editor’s note. The wording has been preserved in English, with […]
NAM2026 by the numbers
Two days at the Gazometro, 850 participants from more than 350 companies and institutions, and one question at the center of NAM2026: will the internet remain a single, open, global network? There is a moment during the second day of NAM2026 when the hall at the Gazometro falls unusually quiet. On stage, Paul Vixie, one […]
